Re: Troubles dumping a very large table.

Ted Allen <tallen@blackducksoftware.com> writes:
> 600mb measured by get_octet_length on data.  If there is a better way to measure the row/cell size, please let me
knowbecause we thought it was the >1Gb problem too.  We thought we were being conservative by getting rid of the larger
rowsbut I guess we need to get rid of even more. 

Yeah, the average expansion of bytea data in COPY format is about 3X :-(
So you need to get the max row length down to around 300mb.  I'm curious
how you got the data in to start with --- were the values assembled on
the server side?

            regards, tom lane